Central Georgia Sports ReportComment

Tuesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Signings: Houston County, Covenant; GHSA golf; Mercer, Middle Georgia State baseball; Mayhem; Braves, Falcons, Hawks

Central Georgia Sports ReportComment
Tuesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Signings: Houston County, Covenant; GHSA golf; Mercer, Middle Georgia State baseball; Mayhem; Braves, Falcons, Hawks

Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.


Central Georgia’s only daily and complete Scoreboard – high schools and colleges, all sorts of sports – is up in Coverage (where the efforts on Tuesdays and Fridays are never ignored).

 

Honor Roll

Mercer’s Yeager a Brooks Wallace semifinalist

And Delano is one for the Olerud Award

Mayhem trio makes SPHL all-rookie team

 

Signings

          At Houston County: Jaleem Santos to Hanover College, Jack Honrath to Reinhardt, Jalen Colvard to LaGrange, and Corey Chaisson to Point, all for football.

          At Covenant: Emily Moore to Covenant College for basketball, and Zy Jenkins to Methodist U. for basketball.

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Top-3 finishes for Perry, Belote, Wiegert, Judd at GHSA golf

          One team and three individuals finished in the top three in their classes in the GHSA state tournament that ended Tuesday.

          Perry’s boys were third in Class 4A, while West Laurens’ Kate Belote, Bleckley County’s Lucy Wiegert, and ACE’s J.D. Judd all took third in their classes.

          Most classes, boys and girls, had up to 12 teams competing, and counted up from mid-30s to about 75 players individual.

Dodge County’s boys took fifth in AA boys, the second-best boys finish. The girls from Bleckley County in AA, ACE in A Public girls and FPD in A Private girls had the top finish at sixth.

 

Middle Georgia State loses heartbreaker in tournament

          Middle Georgia State was in a 4-0 hole after six innings in the NAIA tournament in Florida, and exploded for four in the top of the eighth to tie host and region top seed Southeastern.

          Then the hosts scored one in the bottom half for the lead and

          The Knights put four runs across on five hits and were aided by two errors. J.T. Rice, Ryan Wilson, Justin Brooks, Williams Giles and Marquis Orozco had the singles, Orozco driving in two runs with a two-out single up the middle.

          Southeastern got a two-out homer on a 1-0 count for the lead in the bottom half, and then stranded a two-out single in the top of the ninth.

          Brooks, Orozco, Ryan Wilson and Bucky McGlamrey had two hits each for the Knights. Pitcher Jackson Braden and Caleb Lanous teamed for nine strikeouts and a walk.

          The Knights play Bryan, their first-round victim, at 11 a.m. Wednesday in an elimination game.

 

Mercer rides power and pitching past Georgia Southern

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Pillar back on bench as Mets bop Braves again       

Webb trying to get past pitch to Pillar’s face

Tech takes down Georgia in 14 innings